Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Back door opening at Choo Choo

This morning, nooga.com reported a plan to create another access point to the Chattanooga Choo Choo complex:

"With the opening of the Crash Pad
on Johnson Street came more cars (so) the city needed to resurface an
existing road," Cannon said. "Greenspaces got involved and said if the
road is going to be redone, let's make it sustainable, so the city is
putting in a bioswale. Then the Choo Choo saw it as a perfect
opportunity to open up (their complex). Everybody is doing their part
and nobody is doing more than their part."

Baldwin Street, which intersects East Main Street in the 300 block,
crosses Johnson Road and dead ends into the Chattanooga Choo Choo
hotel's property near Track 29, the city's newest live music venue.

Baldwin Street needed repairs and Lyndhurst agreed to pay the
estimated $13,000 to $15,000 for the materials to build the road's
approximately 30-foot extension to link with the Choo Choo's parking
lot, Dennis Malone, assistant city engineer, said in an email.